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Craft Ventures Opens Austin Office

Announcing our new office in Austin, TX.

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Building the Talent Engine: Beyond Your First Recruiter

Craft VP of Talent explains post-hire dynamics: first recruiter builds infrastructure but requires company-wide participation in sourcing and referrals, while Head of Talent role becomes critical when coordination breaks across multiple recruiters.

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Building the Talent Engine: Hiring Your First Recruiter

Craft VP of Talent shares framework for hiring first recruiter: invest in-house when hiring 1+ person monthly, saving $500K-$750K annually versus agencies while building scalable processes.

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Daylight Security: Investing in the Future of Managed Agentic Security Services

Craft Ventures leads Daylight Security's $33M Series A, backing AI-powered Managed Agentic Security Services that reduce alert volume by 90% and cut costs by 75% versus traditional MDR providers.

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Our Partnership with OpenEvidence: The Intelligence Layer for Modern Medicine

Craft invests in OpenEvidence, AI-powered medical search platform used daily by over half of U.S. physicians, powering 15M+ monthly clinical consultations and achieving 100% on US Medical Licensing Exam.Retry

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Why We Invested in Starbridge

Craft Ventures leads Starbridge.ai's $42M Series A to power AI-driven intelligence for state, local, and education (SLED) procurement, with 150+ customers since early 2025 launch. Retry.

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Inside Supabase’s Breakout Growth: Lessons Scaling to 4.5M+ Devs, Powering AI Coding & Vibe Coding

Supabase scales to 4.5M+ developers with community-first growth, achieving $5B Series E by focusing on database initialization as key activation event and serving two distinct developer segments.

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Inside Replit’s Breakout Growth: Lessons from $2.8M to $150M ARR

We're excited to share insights from Replit's incredible journey, growing from $2.8M to $150M ARR in under a year through product-led marketing systems that turned their AI coding agent launch into compounding growth.

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Why We Invested in ParadeDB

We’re thrilled to be leading ParadeDB’s Series A and supporting them as they build the next generation of search infrastructure on Postgres.

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Why We Invested in Xona Space Systems

Today we’re thrilled to announce Craft’s investment in Xona Space Systems’ Series B, which brings their total funding to $150M.

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Why We Invested In Cartwheel

Cartwheel raises $10M to make pro 3D character animation fast, accessible, and generative for all creators.

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Inside Supabase’s Product & Community Led Growth

Supabase grows with product-led and open-source strategy, now powering 3.5M+ databases and backed by $200M Series D.

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Why We Invested in Norm Ai

Norm Ai raises $48M to revolutionize compliance with AI, backed by top firms and industry leaders.

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Why We Invested in Vooma

Craft Ventures leads Vooma’s $13M Series A, fueling AI-powered automation to revolutionize freight logistics workflows.

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Why We Invested in Upwind Security… Again

Craft Ventures leads $100M Series A in Upwind Security, revolutionizing cloud security with an eBPF-driven platform.

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Why We Invested in Endeavor.ai

Endeavor.ai secures funding from Craft Ventures to transform manufacturing with AI, enhancing efficiency and growth.

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Why We Invested in Supabase

Craft Ventures co-led Supabase's $80M Series C. The Postgres-based platform helps developers build and scale apps quickly.

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Why We Invested in GreenLite

GreenLite raised $28.5M to streamline construction permitting, speeding up projects for brands like Chipotle and others.

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Why We Invested in Ragie

We invested in Ragie, a RAG-as-a-Service provider making it easier for developers to incorporate AI into their apps.

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Why We Invested in Onehouse

We’re excited to announce that Craft led the $35M Series B round in Onehouse, the universal data lakehouse platform.

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Buy and Build a New Playbook for AI Entrepreneurs

LLMs offer a chance to transform labor-intensive services. AI-forward operators can lead in legacy industries.

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Why We Invested in Knock

Craft leads the $12 million Series A in Knock, the notification infrastructure platform for engineering and product team

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The AI Simple Stack

A framework for how companies are starting to build their AI stacks to supercharge their employees and their products.

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Announcing $1.3 Billion for Craft Ventures IV and Growth II

With our fourth early-stage fund & second growth fund, we continue to focus on B2B software in the era of generative AI.

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